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RATTAN WORKING-MACHINE.

No. 370,355. Patented Sept. 20-, 1887..

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EDWARD LUDVVIG RUNGERT AND JULIUS GUSTAV RUNGERT, OF EAST ST. LOUIS, ILLINOIS.

RATTAN-WORKING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,355, dated September 20, 1887.

Application filed February 10, 1887. Serial No. 227,212.

the splitter and in the combination of guides,

feed-rolls, and splitter, in the means for trimming the split and shaved portions, in the means for shaving the split portions, and in the means for obtaining more readily the proper pressure upon the feed-rolls, all substantially as is hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which Figure 1 is a rear elevation of the improved machine. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the machine. Fig. 3'is a vertical section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4is a vertical section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a vertical section on the line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 is a plan of a splitter. Fig. 7 is a view in perspeotive of the trimmer. vation of the machine. Fig. 9 is a bottom view of the trimmer. Fig. 10 is a front end elevation of a splitter, and Fig. 11 is a plan of one of the guides used at the receiving side of the feedrolls in connection with a splitter. Figs. 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 are upon an enlarged scale.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

In operating the machine the twig is first passed through the splitting mechanism. It is introduced between the spring-arms a (1, whose inner free ends, a a, are shaped to inclose and bear upon the twig T and form a guide, A, Figs. 2, 5,11, on the receiving side of the machine. The twig passes through the guide and enters one, b, of the passes in the feed-rolls B B, Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, which operate to deliver the twig to and through the splitter 0, Figs. 1, 5, 6, 10, which is arranged in rear of the feed-rolls. of the splitter are the recessed face of the The principle features 5c splitter and the expansible guide just within the splitter, substantially as shown more dis- Fig. 8 is an end ele-- (No model.)

tinctly in Figs. 6,10. The twig enters the guide, which is composed of the parts 0 c 0, held in position by means of the spring-arms c c c, which in turn are fastened to the body 0 of the sp1itter,substantially as shown. The guide operates to direct the twig to the center 0 of the splitter whose cutting-edges c flare regularly outward from the center 0 substantially as shown, by which means a shearingcut is provided for. and the twig properly centered in the splitter, so that it shall be evenly split.

The splitter may have two, three, four, or more cutting-edges.

The portions it into which the twig is split are, by means of the bevels c spread apart to pass on past the splitter-body c",and within the, encircling band a, which serves to confine the portions, so that they can be conveniently handled by the operator at the delivery-side of the machine. The machine may be adapted to split the twig into two,three,or more parts,

t, to which end there may be as many splitters. Two are shown in the drawings. After being split, the various portions are shaved to the desired thicknesses, and as follows: The feedrolls toward the opposite end where the shaving is done are made the upper one smooth and the lower one grooved, the grooves 01, d 850., diminishing in depth according as the portions t of the twig are thicker or thinner. Opposite that end, and on the receiving side of the machine, is a system of guides, l), D, D, 850., formed by means of the base d provided with the upwardly-extended projections 01 Figs. 2, 3. The twig portion tis dropped into the desired guide D and entered between the feedrolls, which operate to force the twig portion past the knife E, whose edge e is ad justed to shave the twig portion to the desired 0 thickness. There is a passage, 0, beneath the knife for the main part it to pass, and the shaving t escapes over the knife, substantially as shown.

When it is desired to trim the side edges of 5 the shaved withe, it is passed through the trimmer F, Figs. 2, 4, 7, 9, the withe is entered in the guide f, from which it passes between the upright knives f, which,by the means substantially as shown in Fig. 9, are made adjust- 0o desired. The feed-rolls serve to draw the trimmed 'withes through the machine, as show n in Fig. 4. The trimmer is located between the splitting and the shaving mechanisms.

It is desirable in machines such as the pres cut to be able to readily adjust the upper feed-roll with reference to the lower feed-roll. To this end the practice has been to apply pressure at both ends of the rolls, and by means of screws and springs at the two ends g g of the machine G. We have ascertained that it is better to employ but a single screw and spring, H, and that at the middle of the ma chine, substantially as shown in Figs. 1, 2, 8, as thereby the feed-rolls can be at once adjusted, and in such a manner as to facilitate the varied operations carried on with the machine.

1. In a cane or twig machine,the splitter 0, having the recessed face and flaring cuttingedges and the expansible guide composed of parts 0, held in position by the spring-arm 0, just within the splitter, substantially as described.

2. In a splitter, C, the combination of the guide composed of the parts 0, the spring-arm c, and the body 0 to which the spring-arm is secured, substantially as described.

3. The splitter 0, having the guide com: posed of the parts 0, the spring-arm a, the body a, the flaring cutting-edges c, and the bevels c, as described.

4. The combination of the splitter 0, having the splitter body 0 the recessed face, the expansible guide, and the cutting-edges with the encircling bands, substantially as described.

5. In the splitter O, the combination of the guide members or parts 0, the spring-arms c, the body 0 having the said arms attached thereto, and the cutting-edges c flaring outwardly from the center, and bevels c and the encircling band 0 substantially as described.

6. The combination of the guide A, having spring-arms a and free ends a, the feed-rolls B B, and the splitter G, having the guide composed of the parts 0, held in position by the spring-arm c, and the body 0 substantially as described.

7. The combination, in'a rattan working machine, of the feed-rolls, grooved as described,

the splitter O, the shaving-knife E, and the trimmer F, having guide f, and upright knives f, substantially as described.

8. The combination of the-guides A, having the spring-arms a, provided with free ends a, the grooved feed-rolls, the splitter 0, having the expansible guide just within it and constructed as described, the guides D D D &c.,

the knife'E, the trimmer F, having guides f and upright knives f, and the spring and screw H, the several parts arranged and operating substantially as described.

Witness our hands this 29th day of January,

EDWARD LUDWIG BFNGERT. JULIUS GUSTAV RUNGERT. Witnesses:

O. D. MooDY, WILLIAM LIPS. 

